Download or read book EBOOK Supporting ICT in the Early Years written by John Siraj-Blatchford and published by McGraw-Hill Education (UK). This book was released on 2003-10-16 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book is an excellent resource for gaining understanding about the fundamental principles of ICT in the Foundation Stage curriculum... [The] principles of good practice in this book will not be outdated by new products or trends. The book is a well-balanced blend of theory and application. It has certainly helped to provoke and resolve ideas about the use of ICT in our settings." - Nursery World This book helps readers understand how very young children (from birth to six) develop an early awareness, and subsequently develop their knowledge, skills and understandings of information and communication technologies (ICTs). The rapid growth of ICT has prompted concerns among parents, educators and policy-makers over the suitability of many educational applications, and electronic toys, for young children. However, evidence is presented to show that the use of ICT by young children is compatible with the principles of a developmentally appropriate curriculum (DAC). In fact the authors argue that used imaginatively, many applications of ICT can make a significant and unique contribution to children's social and cognitive development. This is a significant book for students, parents,carers, teachers, and other professionals who want to provide a rich learning environment in education, and in teaching and supervising research in the early years.

Download or read book EBOOK ICT in the Early Years written by Mary Hayes and published by McGraw-Hill Education (UK). This book was released on 2006-12-16 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This thought-provoking book demonstrates that the application of technology in the delivery of the curriculum is so much more than this and should give early year’s educators confidence and encouragement to develop their own ideas in using ICT in innovative and imaginative ways." Lynn Kennington, Early Education newsletter How can computers and other ICT applications be most effectively used to support learning in early years settings? Why is it important that young children use ICT in ways which are playful, creative and explorative? What research has been carried out about young children using computers and ICT, and what does this tell us? ICT in the Early Years carefully considers the potential of ICT to provide opportunities for young children to learn through playful and creative activities, examining research and practice in relation to the educational uses of ICT with young children. The book raises important issues about teaching in the early years using ICT, such as giving pupils control, co-operative working, access and assessment. In addition, it: Recounts recent research evidence Provides practical ideas for early years teachers Provokes debate about the future of ICT in early years education The book’s focus is on research outcomes, viewed through discussion of practical classroom approaches, with the pupil viewed as a competent learner and assessor. Emphasis is placed on creative and playful aspects of ICT, with the child as an active agent authoring, experimenting, and creating, rather than passively receiving. ICT in the Early Years is essential reading for teachers and teachers in training, and is also of use to other associated professionals, such as classroom assistants, home educators and nursery teachers. Parents with an interest in the use of technology in education will also find the book of genuine interest.

Download or read book The Really Useful Book of ICT in the Early Years written by Harriet Price and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2009 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Practitioners and students wishing to expand their understanding of how very young children develop an early awareness of ICT will find this text invaluable.

Download or read book Innovative Communication Technologies in Early Childhood Education and Related Issues written by Seth Badu and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2018-04-26 with total page 8 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Submitted Assignment from the year 2018 in the subject Education - Educational Tests & Measurements, University of Education (Early childhood Education), course: Contempoary issues in early childhood education, language: English, abstract: Contemporary issues are events, ideas, opinions or topics in a given subject area that are relevant to the present day. In the area of early childhood education, contemporary issues are issues that have come to light recently and are relevant to the present day. ICT is becoming a ubiquitous component of the physical and social worlds occupied by young children. It is an important part of the private and work lives of most people, including those who support young children’s learning and development, whether as parents, family members, caregivers, or early childhood educators. It is often argued in the literature that children’s early childhood education experiences should reflect and connect with their experiences in the wider world. Therefore, ICT matters in early childhood education, because it already has an effect on the people and the environments that surround young children’s learning and well-being. There is strong consensus across the literature that, it is timely for the role and potential of ICT for the early childhood education sector to be critically examined, to guide future development and decision-making in this area. Since the inception of early childhood education program in 2004, there have several subjects of concern to ensure the effectiveness of the program and since the modern world is fast-paced and dynamic, these issues keeps coming into light and as early childhood stakeholders we cannot forgo these issues without discussing its relevance and effectiveness in advancing early childhood education in Ghana.

Download or read book Young Children and Families in the Information Age written by Kelly L. Heider and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-12-05 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edited book presents the most recent theory, research and practice on information and technology literacy as it relates to the education of young children. Because computers have made it so easy to disseminate information, the amount of available information has grown at an exponential rate, making it impossible for educators to prepare students for the future without teaching them how to be effective information managers and technology users. Although much has been written about information literacy and technology literacy in secondary education, there is very little published research about these literacies in early childhood education. Recently, the National Association for the Education of Young Children and the Fred Rogers Center for Early Learning and Children’s Media at Saint Vincent College published a position statement on using technology and interactive media as tools in early childhood programs. This statement recommends more research “to better understand how young children use and learn with technology and interactive media and also to better understand any short- and long-term effects.” Many assume that today’s young children are “digital natives” with a great understanding of technology. However, children may know how to operate digital technology but be unaware of its dangers or its value to extend their abilities. This book argues that information and technology literacy include more than just familiarity with the digital environment. They include using technology safely and ethically to demonstrate creativity and innovation; to communicate and collaborate; to conduct research and use information and to think critically, solve problems and make decisions.

Download or read book Understanding Digital Technologies and Young Children written by Susanne Garvis and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-09-08 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Understanding Digital Technologies and Young Children explores the possibilities digital technology brings to enhance the learning and developmental needs of young children. Globally, the role of technology is an increasingly important part of everyday life. In many early childhood education frameworks and curricula around the world, there is an expectation that children are developing skills to become effective communicators and are using digital technology to investigate their ideas and represent their thinking. This means that educators throughout the world are expected to actively enhance children’s learning in ways that provide learning experiences with technology that are balanced and purposeful to allow the transformation of traditional authentic learning experiences. Digital technologies can be used to explore, manipulate, discover, play and interact with real and imaginative worlds to allow active meaning making. With a wide range of expert contributors, this book provides a comprehensive examination of the current research on technology and young children and the importance of engagement for learning. This approach encourages the reader to rethink the possibilities and potential of digital technologies for learning in the early years, especially in the years before formal schooling when children might be attending early childhood settings. This will be a valuable reference for anyone looking for an international perspective on digital technology and young children, and is particularly aimed at current and future teachers.

Download or read book Child Development and the Use of Technology Perspectives Applications and Experiences written by Blake, Sally and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2011-11-30 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Children experience technology in both formal and informal settings as they grow and develop. Despite research indicating the benefits of technology in early childhood education, the gap between parents, teachers, and children continues to grow as our new generation of children enters early childhood classrooms. Child Development and the Use of Technology: Perspectives, Applications and Experiences addresses major issues regarding technology for young children, providing a holistic portrait of technology and early childhood education from the views of practitioners in early childhood education, instructional design technology, special education, and mathematics and science education. Consisting of fifteen chapters developed by multidisciplinary teams, this book includes information, advice, and resources from practitioners, professionals, and university faculty engaged in early childhood education and instructional design technology.

Download or read book The Role and Potential of ICT in Early Childhood Education written by Rachel Bolstad and published by . This book was released on 2004-01-01 with total page 93 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This review synthesises recent literature about ICT (Information and Communications Technology) use in early childhood education (ECE). It looks at the role and potential of ICT to support teaching and learning, professional development, sector capability, administration, infrastructure, and information management and communication.

Download or read book Using ICT in the Early Years written by Alex Morgan and published by Andrews UK Limited. This book was released on 2013-02-13 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A step-by-step guide on how to teach young children a variety of ICT in a meaningful and creative way. This title, written by ICT experts in the early years, Prof. John Siraj-Blatchford and Dr. Alex Morgan, is a step-by-step guide on how to teach children under 8 a variety of ICT. This book is designed to be easy to follow by even the most technophobic of readers and contains practical advice on the following: * How to create engaging and creative activities for children in the early years using a range of ICT * A guide to the different types of ICT available, from Bee-Bots to white boards * How to take ICT out of the classroom, with activities to use in outdoor play sessions * How to use ICT in role play to promote children's creativity and imagination * What ICT skills the EYFS and Welsh Foundation Phase require early years practitioners to deliver * Ideas and case studies on best practice in using sustained shared thinking with young children This is a must-buy for anyone wanting meaningful and child-friendly ways of approaching ICT with children under 8.

Download or read book Technology for Early Childhood Education and Socialization Developmental Applications and Methodologies written by Blake, Sally and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2009-08-31 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book provides readers with valuable and authentic research on how technology relates to early childhood growth"--Provided by publisher.

Download or read book Technology and Critical Literacy in Early Childhood written by Vivian Maria Vasquez and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2022-05-05 with total page 137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now in its second edition, this popular text explores classrooms where technology and critical literacies are woven into childhood curricula and teaching. Using real-world stories, it addresses what ICTs afford critical literacy with young children, and how new technologies can be positioned to engage in meaningful and authentic learning. Concise but comprehensive, the text provides strategies, theoretical frameworks, demonstrations of practice, and resources for teachers. Updated with discussions of media literacy and new pedagogical tools, the second edition features new classroom examples and experiences that highlight the ways in which critical literacy, technology and media literacy come together in everyday life in the early childhood classroom. The inviting examples model how to use the interests and inquiry questions of young learners as a springboard for creating a critical curriculum. Each chapter includes Reflection Points, pedagogical invitations, and Resource Boxes to imagine new possibilities of working with students in engaging and supportive ways. The inspiring stories, guidance, and tools this book make it a great resource for pre-service teachers and students in Early Childhood Education and Literacy Education, and primary teachers and educators.

Download or read book Outstanding Early Childhood Practice in ICT written by Hui-Yun Sung and published by Andrews UK Limited. This book was released on 2020-08-18 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the only early years guide available to combine ICT pedagogy and practice; perfect for starting children off to computing technology; and a user-friendly and completely accessible text. This book will show practitioners how they can cover the foundation stage curriculum for ICT and prepare the children for the new computing curriculum for KS1. It will provide pedagogical clarity and show schools and pre-schools what it is that they need to be doing to demonstrate outstanding practice. Computational thinking will also be extended beyond the use of computers, and its relevance to supporting the child's wider cognitive development and learning will be emphasised.

Download or read book The Role of Technology in America s Schools written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and the Workforce. Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Youth, and Families and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Youth and Families, Committee on Education and the Workforce, Washington, DC met in Washington, DC on March 8, 2000 to hear testimony on the role of technology in America's schools. Chairman of the Subcommittee Michael Castle presided. Contents include the opening statements of Chairman Michael Castle and of ranking member Dale Kildee and statements of: Carlene Ellis, Vice President for Education, Intel Corporation, Folsom, California; Tony Lee, Senior Director, Worldwide Markets, Apple Computer, Inc., Cupertino, California; Jason Bertsch, Deputy Director of Policy, Empower America, Washington, DC; David H. Winston, Senior Vice President, Fabrizio, McLaughlin & Associates, Alexandria, Virgina; and Jeffrey Chin, Computer Literacy Teacher, Elliott Alternative Education Center, Modesto, California, on behalf of the National Education Association. Appendixes include the written statements of Chairman Michael Castle, Ranking Member Dale Kildee, Carlene Ellis, Tony Lee, Jason Bertsch, and David H. Winston. (Includes a table of indexes.) (AEF)

Download or read book Young Children Playing and Learning in a Digital Age written by Christine Stephen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-11-27 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Young Children Playing and Learning in a Digital Age explores the emergence of the digital age and young children’s experiences with digital technologies at home and in educational environments. Drawing on theory and research-based evidence, this book makes an important contribution to understanding the contemporary experiences of young children in the digital age. It argues that a cultural and critically informed perspective allows educators, policy-makers and parents to make sense of children’s digital experiences as they play and learn, enabling informed decision-making about future early years curriculum and practices at home and in early learning and care settings. An essential read for researchers, students, policy-makers and professionals working with children today, this book draws attention to the evolution of digital developments and the relationship between contemporary technologies, play and learning in the early years.

Download or read book Digital Play and Technologies in the Early Years written by Christine Stephen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-04-24 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Technologies are a pervasive feature of contemporary life for adults and children. However, young children’s experiences with digital technologies are often the subject of polarised debate among parents, educators, policymakers and social commentators, particularly since the advent of tablets and smartphones changed access to the Internet and the nature of interactions with digital resources. Some are opposed to children’s engagement with digital resources, concerned that the activities they afford are not developmentally appropriate, limit physical activity and restrict the development of social skills. Others welcome digital technologies which they see as offering new and enhanced ways of learning and sharing knowledge. Despite this level of popular and policy interest in young children’s interactions with digital technologies our understanding of the influence of these technologies on playing and learning, and on the role of educators, has remained surprisingly limited. The contributions to this book fill in the gaps of our existing understanding of the field. They focus on children and families from Australia to England to Estonia, the how and why of encounters with digital technologies, the nature of digital play and questions about practice and practitioners. The book raises critical questions and offers new understandings and theoretical insights around one of the ‘hot topics’ in early years research. This book was originally published as a special issue of the Early Years journal.

Download or read book Young Children written by June L. Wright and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book addresses the issues of appropriate use of computers with young children and how children and early childhood educators interact with the computer in early childhood settings. Part 1, "Young Children as Active Learners," contains chapter 1: "Listen to the Children: Observing Young Children's Discoveries with the Microcomputer" (June L. Wright); chapter 2: "Thoughts on Technology and Early Childhood Education" (Barbara T. Bowman and Elizabeth R. Beyer); and chapter 3: "The Uniqueness of the Computer as a Learning Tool: Insights from Research and Practice" (Douglas H. Clements). Part 2, "The Role of Technology in the Early Childhood Curriculum," includes chapter 4: "Learning and Teaching with Technology" (Sue Bredekamp and Teresa Rosegrant); chapter 5: "Software Evaluation for Young Children" (Susan W. Haugland and Daniel D. Shade); chapter 6: "The Potential of the Microcomputer in the Early Childhood Classroom" (Jane Davidson and June L. Wright); chapter 7: "Staff Development Practices for Integrating Technology in Early Childhood Education Programs" (Charles Hohmann); chapter 8: "Computer Applications in Early Childhood Special Education" (Michael M. Behrmann and Elizabeth A. Lahm); and chapter 9: "Family Involvement: Family Choices at Home and School" (Patricia A. Ainsa and others). Part 3, "The Challenge for Early Childhood Educators" includes chapter 10: "Moving Early Childhood Education into the 21st Century" (Gwendolyn G. Morgan and Daniel D. Shade); chapter 11: "Replicating Inequities: Are We Doing It Again?" (Suzanne Thouvenelle and others); and chapter 12: "Interactive Technology and the Young Child: A Look to the Future" (Cynthia Char and George E. Forman). The following articles are appended: (1) "Using Computers to Support Thematic Units" (Jane Davidson); (2) "Early Childhood Education and Computer Networking: Making Connections" (Bonnie Blagojevic); and (3) "Helpful Hints on Acquiring Hardware" (Daniel D. Shade). A glossary and a list of software for young children is also provided. All chapters contain references and 55 additional resources are provided. (BAC)

Download or read book International Perspectives on Digital Media and Early Literacy written by Katharina J. Rohlfing and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-10-19 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: International Perspectives on Digital Media and Early Literacy evaluates the use and impact of digital devices for social interaction, language acquisition, and early literacy. It explores the role of interactive mediation as a tool for using digital media and provides empirical examples of best practice for digital media targeting language teaching and learning. The book brings together a range of international contributions and discusses the increasing trend of digitalization as an additional resource in early childhood literacy. It provides a broad insight into current research on the potential of digital media in inclusive settings by integrating multiple perspectives from different scientific fields: (psycho)linguistics, cognitive science, language didactics, developmental psychology, technology development, and human–machine interaction. Drawing on a large body of research, it shows that crucial early experiences in communication and social learning are the basis for later academic skills. The book is structured to display children’s first developmental steps in learning in interaction with digital media and highlight various domains of early digital media use in family, kindergarten, and primary schools. This book will appeal to practitioners, academics, researchers, and students with an interest in early education, literacy education, digital education, the sociology of digital culture and social interaction, school reform, and teacher education.